Highschool_science. Cyberbullying. Sciencevideos. Inspiring_vidoes. Educational_videos. The best film titles ever made. From Stephen Frankfurt's beautiful title sequence for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) In our August issue, Adam Lee Davies looks at the continuing rise of the film title sequence since its artistic resurgence in the 1990s. In his article, Better Than the Film? , he talks to many of the genre's leading practioners such as Kyle Cooper and Garson Yu. For CR Blog, Davies has selected 30 of the best title sequences ever made... The Great Ziegfeld (1936) Dizzying, expressionist intro to overstuffed MGM musical Show Boat (1936) Quaint but effective opening for the 1936 incarnation of the am-dram staple The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) Saul Bass's stark opening sequence for Preminger's clammy heroin fableTo Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Simply perfect intro to Robert Mulligan's fine adaptation of the straight-arrow classic Walk on the Wild Side (1962) Sexy feline insouciance is at the very heart of this Nelson Algren adaptationDr.
Dr. Pablo Ferro's classic sequence for Kubrick's cold war satire Thanks! Your Top 10 Videos (That Inspire Us To Rethink The Way We Learn) I was last night exploring Dr. Alec Couros amazing list of videos for Tech. & Media Literacy, and then an idea popped in my wondering mind. Ironically and sadly, many of us are still trying to persuade our dear fellow educators to rethink the way we educate and learn (even until today! Believe it or not!) , but often fall short for one reason or the other. Let's face it, not all of us can inspire like Obama.
However, if we can't personally inspire mindset change, others perhaps can. Personally, I always use videos (usually short ones. 3-10 minutes) in my presentations to spark or inspire participants to think about, or rethink the way we learn and teach in the 21st century (It is already 2009!). However, the real challenge is to choose the appropriate video(s) for the learning event, while taking into consideration all the racial, cultural or religious challenges it might cause.
Wouldn't it be nice if other learning professionals (or anyone for that sake!) If not, we could use a wiki. Want a free education? A brief guide to the burgeoning world of. RESERVE ANOTHER LAUREL for Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor emeritus at Harvard, serial Pulitzer winner, and prominent intellectual: online celebrity. Forget Charlie Rose - Wilson has Google for a soapbox. Amid the amateur-hour piffle of YouTube "talent" and skateboarding dogs, the famed biologist stands in bold relief, with more than 500 Google video search results to his credit: Interviews ranging far afield of TV shows to a spate of appearances on several Web-only video platforms such as Meaningoflife.tv, Bigthink.com, Fora.tv, and the online home of the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference. It was through a TED presentation that Wilson chose to unveil his proposal for the Encyclopedia of Life, a Wikipedia of biodiversity, and a few short months later he secured the funding necessary to launch it.
The Oprah: TED The TED Talks program single-handedly popularized the phenomenon of brainy programming. The reason TED videos work? The Talk Show: Bigthink.com. World » : The World is Flat. Mathmaticious. 7 of the Most Inspiring Videos on the Web. Stuck in a cubicle all day? Hit a brick wall on that project? Not sure what to do next with your life? You need some inspiration, and you're in luck because the web is full of inspiring stories captured on video. Video is the perfect vehicle for an inspiring story because it can make the story come alive like no other medium.
Below is a list of 7 of the most of the inspiring videos on the web, embedded so you can watch them here. 1. William Kamkwamba was 14 when he built a windmill from scrap parts in order to provide enough electricity to power 4 lightbulbs and 2 radios in his home in his tiny village in Malawi. Kwakwamba's inspiring story teaches us to dream big. 2. Autistic basketball player Jason McElwain spent most of his high school career cheering his team on from the bench as team manager — until the final 4 minutes of his final game as a senior. McElwain, who never complained about being left off the roster, shows us that attitude is everything. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Open thinking » 90+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy. Update December 3/09: There has been much interest in this list so I have transferred this resource to a wiki. This post will remain, but I would be happy if others contributed to the wiki version found here.
Thanks for your interest in media education. Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use. Conversation Starters: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 21st Century Learning: 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 21st Century Schools – This is a video prepared by the Department of Children, Schools and Families in the United Kingdom. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Copyright, Copyleft & Remix/Mashup Culture: 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Influence of Media on Society: 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. SchoolWAX TV. Schools Tube. Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People. EVTV1 - Watch It Now - Video Clips Description: EVTV1 brings you.